With Esri software you can make one of the layers semi-transparent, which washes out the image below.

In QGIS you draw the hillshade on top and use the darken or multiply blending mode. Then adjust the contrast to make the lighter portion of the hillshade transparent. This makes the image full intensity color, but you can see the shading well.

Move Label is built into QGIS 3 and allows you to arrange the label for a feature, but still keep it “live”, such that the label is still tied to the layer styling.

You want to set the scale of your final map first so that the labels don’t move when they are drawn at a different scales.

The lock next to the scale at the bottom of the main QGIS window will lock the scale of the symbology and labeling. You can still pan and zoom the map.

QGIS 3.2.3 MacOS Display Bug

Clifford Snow shared a known bug in 3.2.3 on MacOS. The map view doesn’t fill in the whole portion of the window devoted to it. During the meeting Stephen Mangum installed QGIS on his Mac for the first time and experienced this bug.

Clifford was able to demonstrate the work around:

Adjust the edges between various panels in the window and it will begin to fill the panel as expected.

QGIS 3 Vertex Editing Issues

Clifford Snow shared some odd behavior when editing vertices in QGIS 3 as explained in the second question on this Stack Exchange. We could not duplicate it on MacOS. It may be a Linux only issue.

Map Design-Second Edition by Anita Graser and Gretchen Peterson

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